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The deadline for submitting your 2024 qualified medical expense claims for your Flexible Spending Account is March 31, 2025.
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College admissions success depends on the critical high school years. How can you help your child make the most of them? Learn about the college admissions process and how to help your child effectively plan his or her high school academic and extracurricular program. See the College Coach Flyer here.
Find out how to:
- Select the appropriate type of level of courses for your student
- Design a strategy for extracurricular and summer activities
- Manage the calendar for standardized tests, recommendation letters, essays, and interviews.
The deadline to receive a $100 gift card for completing a qualifying consultation through 2nd.MD is March 31, 2025.
They say that “Laughter is the best medicine”. It certainly is a great way to boost your well-being, improve your health and enhance your mood. This training will explore:
- Definitions and humor statistics
- The physical and mental benefits of laughter
- Different theories and history of laughter
- Laughter therapies
- Tips to incorporate humor and laughter into daily life
This training looks at the two factors that drive how we choose to use our time: Urgency and Importance. It helps participants identify their personal time management style and offers tips and tools to support their style. You will learn:
- Why time management is important
- Common barriers to effective time
We may all face a financial setback at some point in life. How will you react? What is the plan? We will walk you through a process that includes assessing the challenge and the impact on your finances. Then we’ll review how you can take action and get prepared for future difficulties.
Meeting ID: 282 706 042 215
Access the Monthly Health and Wellness Page via the Starr portal.
Everyone loves to win but how does winning fit into your overall concept of success? This training will give you the opportunity to redefine success in a way that works for you on your own terms. We will review:
- The myths of winning and losing
- How to change the message of success
- Redefining success and rethinking failure
- Tips to help plan and shape the path to success
We always hear about mindfulness but what is it? Essentially, mindfulness is the practice of being present in the moment. It’s hard to slow down and be present. Join us for this brief session where participants will:
- Learn the basics of mindfulness
- Understand how to use mindfulness in everyday life and work
- Participate in a guided mindfulness exercise
Find yourself at business meetings with little to say? How about social gatherings? Are you the one standing in the corner with the plant? This training will help you to develop the art of small talk so that you can increase your comfort level. Participants will:
- Learn conversation builders
- Recognize conversation stoppers
- Increase comfort levels in social situations
What are you thankful for? According to current research, gratitude is strongly associated with happiness. You feel good about something and in turn your appreciation makes someone else feel good as well. So, how do we bring more gratitude into our life? In this training, you will learn about:
- The definition, impacts and importance of gratitude
- How gratitude affects the body and mind
- How to express gratitude in your life and into the lives of others
- Incorporating gratitude exercises in your life
You juggle a lot – work, home, family and more. And you’re still expected to make time for you! Sometimes it’s just easier to go through the drive thru or skip your workout. But how does this impact your overall stress and wellbeing? You can’t create more hours in the day, but you can fit health into your busy schedule. This training will discuss:
- Healthy choices and how they make you more productive
- Tips for eating well on the go
- Ways to squeeze in exercise
- Tricks to relax
- How to prioritize your health when everyone and everything else is a priority
Building self-esteem is the single greatest gift parents can give their children. Self-esteem is the foundation that impacts your child’s future decisions about friends, relationships, jobs, careers and day-to-day life. This topic will explore strategies and tips on how to make a meaningful impact for your child. Participants will:
- Define self-esteem
- Learn how to identify triggers and create new, positive routines
- Find practical ways to handle setbacks and stay on track
You want your child to love his or her college years… but what makes a “good fit”? Find out why it’s about more than just academics, and how the right combination of elements is critical to maximizing your child’s education experience.
Get expert advice on how to:
- Pinpoint your child’s interests
- Identify goals and strengths
- Create a college list that meets your child’s needs
As we progress through different stages of life, we discover that health needs change. In this webinar, you will navigate common health concerns, review screenings, and identify strategies to keep every member of your family healthy. You will learn ways to keep health on your mind and practice self-care. You will also be invited to create a realistic action plan to keep your family healthy.
If you and your student are looking for scholarships, you might both be overwhelmed. A web search for the word “scholarship” yields nearly 200 million results. How can you figure out how to find scholarships that your child is likely to receive?
We’ll help you streamline the process and learn how to:
- Understand college-based vs. privately funded scholarships
- Develop a college list to maximize scholarship funding
- Identify the best sources of outside scholarships and avoid scams
- Fit scholarships into an overall college finance plan
Uncontrolled stress can impact health and job performance. This webinar invites you to identify sources of stress, its effects on the mind and body, and how constantly activating the “fight or flight” response can lead to burnout and health problems. You will learn strategies to build resilience and you will be invited to create a personal stress reducing action plan to build healthy coping habits.
Preventative care includes simple but important choices every man can make for himself and his family to live a longer and healthier life. In this webinar, you will explore what makes men’s health unique, identify strategies to maintain up to date screenings and discover self-care tools. You will be invited to create a realistic action plan that will help you take positive steps towards taking control of your health.
Are you getting your steps in? The Starr Step Challenge is a fun way get healthy and compete for the title of "Super Starr Stepper". The challenge will start on Monday, April 28th and conclude on Sunday, May 25th.
Employees can create a team of up to 6 employees to compete against other Starr teams. Let's see some creative team names!
Top Steppers will be recognized on Start Portal. Employees will win under the different categories below. We will have self-identified runner and walker classifications; please be honest when determining if you are a regular runner or walker. We will define a runner by someone who runs on average once a day for at least 4 days a week, and then you will self-identify when you join a team.
Recognized Categories:
- “Weekly Champion" (most steps in one week - runner and walker winner)
- “Best Walking Buddy" (post photos of your walking buddy in the designated teams channel - one winner)
- “Most Creative Team Name" (as determined by a poll open to the employees)
- “Top Stepping Team" (one for walkers, one for runners, and one with both)
- “Lucky Stepper" (one winner determined by a random wheel spin)
- “Marathon Master" (message Samantha Nordmark to say you will be running in a marathon during the time frame)
If you have any questions, please email hr@starrcompanies.com.